Example sentences of "that [be] his " in BNC.

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1 I do n't think that 's that big though cos that s his shoulder there look .
2 Let that be his character note .
3 So when S knows that p , it is his knowing that is his disposition , not what he knows .
4 However , it is King 's work in Wales that is his great legacy .
5 My old mate , Malc Bassford , had 3 lb next to me — he is definitely getting better as that is his best weight since he bagged up on the River Cam 20 years ago .
6 That is his job .
7 That is his business .
8 If the liberal humanist wishes to criticize a Christian or a Buddhist or a Marxist , that is his right .
9 If Brian Wilson wishes to echo the slurs of Ian Lang by referring to those organising the call for a referendum as ‘ headless chickens ’ , that is his choice , but if he thinks that is the best way to protect health , education and jobs from Tory policies , it is he who will be judged harshly .
10 That is his nature .
11 Well , that is his interpretation of it but my defender , Dave Watson , was goal-side of their player , Les Ferdinand .
12 That is his only League appearance to date .
13 Morrissey , of course , prefers arch playfulness and that is his prerogative as a person and a songwriter .
14 That is his usual practice .
15 That is his obeying the order .
16 At Crewe south , on another occasion , Piccolo Pete Johnson succeeded in taking a Grange as far as Alsager before he stopped , but that is his story , and not mine .
17 I am not concerned in what the next man thinks and does , that is his business but I must do what my own conscience dictates .
18 In October 1950 when Lehmann had a reconciliation lunch with Keith Vaughan at the Ivy restaurant after some disagreement , the two men found themselves discussing Minton and Ricky Stride ‘ and the morality of letting a friend ruin himself if that is his deepest impulse ’ .
19 What makes him do that is his belief that the man is about to explode a bomb .
20 Howard Baker ( that is his name ) is sitting in front of a green light waiting for a green light because he is thinking .
21 I am supposed to make anything , or nothing , of it ; obscurity and ambiguity are built in , whether deliberately or because that is his habit .
22 That is his principal claim to fame .
23 That is his view . ’
24 He describes himself as having ‘ worked his way single-mindedly downwards ’ since a burst of popularity on the Sixties satirical circuit — and part of the reason for that is his determined production of radical anthems regardless of political or musical fashion .
25 That is his strength — but also his weakness , since music tends to take second place and leave him locked in a radical cabaret slot from which he is unlikely to emerge .
26 I am giving my hon. Friend the correct answer ; if he has asked the wrong question , that is his problem .
27 That is his plan to dismember Her Majesty 's inspectorate of schools and to privatise the local inspectorate of schools so that inspectors are picked and paid by their own schools .
28 I take it that that is his view .
29 This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse .
30 In this epistle he indicates that he himself , at the time of writing , is a solitary attracted by the disciplined life of service in a religious order , but does not feel any burning conviction that that is his calling : I confess , alas , that I do not feel that burning spiritual desire for entry into religion , inspired by that divine grace , as it ought to be felt by those who from zealous devotion and pure desire of the mind plan to enter religion …
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